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Transit · 2022

K2-372 b

This world receives 104× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 9.84 days; the light you see left it 1.51 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.9 × Earth 
A year
9.84 days0.0851 AU
Temperature
618 °C891 K

About this world

K2-372 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-372, a yellow, Sun-like star 1.51 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.9 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 9.84 days at 0.085 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 891 K (618 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2022 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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